Key facts
- Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen's Taiz province killed three people, including two children.
- Two others were wounded in the attacks.
- Yemeni army drone strikes killed three Houthi members and wounded several others in Taiz province.
- Fighting has escalated across Yemen, with renewed hostilities between Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthis.
- The Houthis promised retaliation for what they claimed were 54 Saudi airstrikes in a 12-hour period.
- Saudi Arabia accused the Houthis of continuing to strike the kingdom’s infrastructure.
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province killed three people, including two children, and wounded two others, according to the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. The Yemeni army also conducted drone strikes in Taiz, killing three Houthi members and wounding several others, according to military sources.
Fighting has escalated across Yemen, with the internationally recognized government blaming the Houthis for an artillery attack that killed three children in Marib governorate, while Saudi Arabia accused the Iran-backed group of continuing to strike the kingdom’s infrastructure. The renewed hostilities between the Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthis are unfolding amid intensifying regional tensions.
The Houthis promised to retaliate for what they said were 54 Saudi airstrikes in a 12-hour span. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Major General Turki al-Maliki, said the Houthis were persisting in attacks on the kingdom’s assets and infrastructure, using ballistic missiles and drones. Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority issued multiple alerts for Khamis Mushait and Abha.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa. A UN-brokered truce in 2022 brought a halt to large-scale fighting, but clashes resumed in July following a strike by government forces on the Houthi-held Sanaa airport. The Houthis recently launched a major offensive in Hodeidah and Taiz provinces aimed at advancing towards the Bab al-Mandeb strait.